Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [pron] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He won a silver medal for 5,000 metres at the World Junior track championships last year and a couple of months later he took fourth place — again at Junior level — in the World cross country championships in Boston . |
| 2 | Eighteen months ago I took early retirement . |
| 3 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 4 | erm a great deal is talked about democracy in schools and you very often have all kinds of organisations allegedly which take democratic decisions . |
| 5 | If natural selection eliminates half the population in each generation , complete specification requires two generations of selection , one to eliminate C and G , and a second to eliminate T. Thus it takes two generations to specify each base . |
| 6 | A week later I took two children and the three of us got there and back for £40.50 , which does seem a comparative snip . |
| 7 | The island is a mixture of high mountains , craggy coastline , sandy beaches , deep blue sea , and music and laughter from the people here who take fierce pride in their independence , their curling moustaches and the fiery local brew — Raki . |